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ArPLIoATIoI FILED JULY ne, 1911.

1,083,410, PatentedJuly 23, 1912.

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To all whom 'it may concern: Y A' Be it known .that I, Fon!) Jonas, a citizen .of l.the United States, and ieSldpnt v0f Wilmette, in the oaunty of Gool; and -State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invent-ion relates to improvements 1n packing 'and shipping boxes for merchandise.

It has for its object to lprovide .an improved construction in such receptacles, and consists of the matters hereinafter .pointed ,out and particularly set forth Vin the appended claims.

In 1,the accompanying drawing, F1gure l designates a perspective view of a `packing box constructed in accordance with -my 1mprovements. Fig. 2 is 4a sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig.v 1. Fig. 3 1s a similar view :taken .on line 3 3 of Fi 1.

`My improved box is made up of t ree pairs of sides,l1 2, 3 4, and 5 6. Each of these pairs (for example, the pair 1 2), is madeup of duplicate side members, alike in structure and dimensions, each consisting of boards placed edge to edge and connected at their ends by external marginal cleats 7, nailed to the boards, the nails being preferably driven through from the inside and clenched on the outer faces of the cleats. The box is composed, as stated, of three pairs of these sides, and for convenience of reference, these sides will be spoken of as having length in direction of their boards and width in the direction of their cleats, the length of each side being thus measured by the length of the boards of which it is composed,l and the width by the length of the cleats which extend across its ends. The ends of the sides in this view will be those margins along which the cleats 7 lie, while the lateral margins will be those which are not provided wlth cleats, except as the ends of the .cleats 7 reach to these lateral margins. In making up a box of these sides thus formed the lateral or uncleated margins of each pair of sides are made to embrace the cleated ends of one of the other pairs of sides, while the cleated ends of the first pair of sides are themselves embraced by the lateral margins of the third pair of Thus, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, the upper and lower margins of lthe pair of sides 1 2, which are the uncleated lateral margins of these sides, embrace between them the end margins (with their cleats 7) of the top and bottom sides `5 while the vertical margins or ends of the sides 1 2, to which their c1eats7 are nalled, are in turn embraced between :the

vertical margins of the sidesB-ei, which are.

the uncleate lateral margins of these sides, and at .the same time the uncleated lateral 0r front and .rear margins of the top and bogom `sides 5 6 .embrace between them lthe en margins (with their cleats 7) ofthe The mutual smterlocking iengagement of the several sides of the box, thus described, causes each uncleaited lateral margin of each side to longitudinally overlap lone of the cleats `7 of one of the other sides, and per-` mits nails to be Idriven through into this cleat, as at 8. The end nails 9 of the row of nails' thus driven throng? each lateral margin of each side will na urally be also driven through the extremities of the end cleats 7 of that side, into the cleats 7 of the other side, and a glance at Fig. 3 of the -drawipg will show how the several cleats,

thus nailed together, overlap and in effect interlock at the corners of the box. The corner thus illustrated will be understood to be typical of all of the corners of the box.

Usually in the construction of boxes, especially as lumber becomes scarce, the boards of which the sides of theboxes are composed are made of relatively thin stock, while the cleats are made thicker to give the box the necessary strength. The improved box structure herein set forth is particularly advantageous under such circumstances, since it opposes a thick piece, to-wit, a cleat, to every exposed thin edge or margin of the side boards of the box, and enables the nails to be driven through each cleat in the direction of its width. Such a box is furthermore advantageous, in that it affords no ex- I claim 1. A rectangular box having a-marginal cleat extending the length of each of the corner edges of the box, said cleats overlapping and being fastened together at each corner of the box, the boards o each side of the box being rfastened to the inner faces of the cleats of that side and the lateral margins of the edge boards of said side overlapping and concealing the ends of the boards of the abutting sides.

2. A rectangular packing box composed of three pairs of similarly constructed sides, each of the sides having external transverse marginal cleats secured across the ends of its boards, the cleated ends of each pair of such sides bein embraced between the lateral margins o .one of the other'pairs of sides, the lateral margins of the first pair of sides in turn embracing the cleated end margins of the third pair of sides, and the lateral margins of the third pair of sides embracing the cleated ends of'the second pair of sides, and nails or the like passing through the lateral margins of each pair of sides intov the marginal cleats of the sides embraced byV them, substantially as described. 'j`

3. A six-sided wooden box, each side of cleats being respectively secured across the outer faces of the sides at'those edges which are transverse to the grain of the side elements to which such cleats are directly attached, the sides and cleats being so arranged that the cleats attached toyeach side extend at ri ht langles t9 the cleats of the adjacent s1 ping and the cleats being secured to one another.

4. A six-sided box, each side comprising a plurality of boards, and a pair of marginal cleats, the cleats extending across the outer faces of said boards at the end edges, thereof; the boards and the cleats being so arranged that thecleats of each side are at ri ht angles tp the cleats of the adjacent si e, the ext mities of the cleats being overlapped at each corner of the box and being Jsecured`to one another.

In testimony, that I claim t-he foregoing as my invention, I affix my signature in presence oftwo subscribing witnesses, this 24th day of July, A. D. 1911.

` FORD JONES. Witnesses:

HENRY W.` CARTER, K. A. COSTELLO.

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